IED event in Jammu and Kashir, Kirni area, India on Fri 7th October 2022

Police on October 7 busted a module behind smuggling of an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) and huge quantity of narcotics with the arrest of five terror associates in Poonch District of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), reports Daily Excelsior. Besides the IED, six kilograms of suspected heroin worth crores of rupees in international market and a pistol were recovered from the arrested accused, Police officials said. The IED was smuggled in from across the Line of Control (LoC) and recovered from 35-year-old woman Zaitoona Akhter, a resident of Qasba, by a joint team of Police and Security Forces (SFs) on September 28, thus thwarting militants attempt to carry out an explosion. Woman revealed that her husband Mohammad Azad provided the IED to her and, accordingly, he was picked up and subjected to sustain questioning, leading to the busting of the whole module. Azad’s maternal uncle Bashir Ahmad alias “Tika Khan” who is associated with Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) and Hizbul Mujahideen terror groups across the border, sent the IED for subversive activity which was received by Azad and Qamardin. Both Azad and Qamardin, a resident of Kirni, were in touch with their relatives in Pakistan who are involved in terror activities, the officials said, adding two brothers of Qamardin – Najim din alias Naja and Latief – are living in Mangbajri camp in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) and are associates of Tika Khan. During the course of investigation on the disclosure of Qamardin, one pistol, two magazines and 43 rounds were recovered from Keerni, the officials said. Two more persons, Wajahat Khan and Kamal Din of Keerni, who were aiding them in carrying and transporting consignment up to Poonch were also arrested, Police said.